# 1837 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1837 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Penry Williams
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell
* Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
* Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster
* Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh
* Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney
* Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell
* Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston
* Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey
* Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson

## Events

* 1 April – John Josiah Guest is elected the first chairman of the Merthyr "board of guardians", formed with the view of obtaining an act of Parliament for the incorporation of Merthyr.
* 10 May – 21 men are killed in a mining accident at Plas-yr-Argoed, Mold, Flintshire.
* July /August – In the United Kingdom general election:
** Sir John Edwards, 1st Baronet, defeats Panton Corbett to win Montgomery for the Liberals for a second time.
** Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl joins Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot as MP for Glamorganshire.
** Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet, future brother-in-law of Gladstone, becomes MP for Flintshire.
** William Bulkeley Hughes defeats Charles Henry Paget to take Caernarvon Boroughs for the Tories.
* date unknown
** Chartist riots in Montgomeryshire.
** George Rowland Edwards becomes secretary to Lord Clive.
** Major reconstruction of Penrhyn Castle in north Wales by Thomas Hopper (architect) is largely completed.

## Arts and literature

* Henry Mark Anthony exhibits A view on the Rhaidha [sic] Glamorganshire at the Royal Academy.
* The Welsh Manuscripts Society is founded at Abergavenny.

### New books
#### English language

* Charles James Apperley – The Chace, the Road, and the Turf
* Eliza Constantia Campbell – Tales about Wales

### Music

* Robert Edwards – Caersalem (hymn tune), published in Peroriaeth Hyfryd

## Births

* 14 March – Thomas Meyrick, politician (d. 1921)
* 26 May – Henry Hicks, geologist (d. 1899)
* 3 August – Lewis Pugh Pugh, politician (d. 1908)
* 5 August – William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr, industrialist (d. 1914)
* 6 September – Henry Thomas Edwards, Dean of Bangor (d. 1884)
* 22 September – Thomas Charles Edwards, minister, writer and first principal of the University of Wales (d. 1900
* 26 December – Sir William Boyd Dawkins, geologist (d. 1929)
* date unknown
** John Griffiths, mathematician (d. 1916)
** Octavius Vaughan Morgan, politician (d. 1896)
** William Bowen Rowlands, politician (d. 1906)

## Deaths

* 31 January – John Rolls of The Hendre, English-born landowner, 60
* 19 February – Thomas Burgess, former Bishop of St David's, 80
* 27 September – William Pryce Cumby, Superintendent of Pembroke Dockyard, 66
* 20 November – John Edward Madocks, MP, 51